Military Chat

Soldiers were encouraged to make a will before going into action
You can search to see if they left one? if they did you have to pay to see it

see https://www.gov.uk/probate-search

Roy

The National Archives have recently made some Regiments' War Diaries available on line. If the ones your relatives were in are among them, you could look to see what was recorded for the days they died. The Diaries cost £3.36 to download.

Also, the Cemetery info on the CWGC site sometimes details which battles the soldiers buried there were involved with.

Please be aware that over 60% of the WW1 records were destroyed in WW2 bombing.

You can make a search for yourself on the National Archive. Any result will forward you to Ancestry where you would have to pay to access the images.

Rather than pay, many people have subs to that and would be willing to look on your behalf.

To help identification, if you could give
Full name
Year & place of birth
Where they were living when they enlisted or where conscripted
The name of their next of kin.
Service number/Battalion or Regiment.

Some of the information can be found on http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx

Margaret if you give some details we can look for you on war forces...

Hi
I've found three relatives that were killed in action can you tell me how I can find out more information about them please
Thanks
Margaret :-)